IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jeners/v15y2022i18p6782-d917011.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Study on Inter-Provincial Environmental Pollution Movement in China Based on the Input–Output Method

Author

Listed:
  • Yong Shi

    (Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    The Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

  • Anda Tang

    (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

  • Tongsheng Yao

    (School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing 100190, China)

Abstract

In China, environmental pollution responsibilities are divided according to administrative regions. However, because of the strong externality of environmental pollution, the movement of environmental pollution undoubtedly increases the complexity of pollution governance. To divide the responsibility of environmental pollution governance in each province, we effectively quantify the unequal relationship between environmental pollution costs and economic benefits in each province to understand the mechanism and characteristics of inter-provincial environmental pollution movement. Based on the regional input–output model and an inventory we compiled of sulfur dioxide(SO 2 ) emissions of air pollutants in 2012, we calculate the implied inter-provincial environmental pollution emissions and economic benefits from trade, based on production and consumption (supply-side and demand-side). In addition, the movement relationship is explored, and the cost and economic value-added indexes of air pollution control are further constructed to provide effective evidence for a reasonable division of responsibility for environmental pollution control. The results show that there are obvious environmental inequities in the regional trade process in each province, indicating that environmental pollution has been moved. Developed provinces have more economic benefits but pay less in the process of trading goods with less-developed provinces due to the advantages of their industrial structure, while the opposite is true for less-developed provinces. Finally, we propose corresponding policy recommendations to change this condition.

Suggested Citation

  • Yong Shi & Anda Tang & Tongsheng Yao, 2022. "A Study on Inter-Provincial Environmental Pollution Movement in China Based on the Input–Output Method," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(18), pages 1-19, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:18:p:6782-:d:917011
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/18/6782/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/18/6782/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. He, He & Reynolds, Christian John & Li, Linyang & Boland, John, 2019. "Assessing net energy consumption of Australian economy from 2004–05 to 2014–15: Environmentally-extended input-output analysis, structural decomposition analysis, and linkage analysis," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 240(C), pages 766-777.
    2. Jamiu Adetayo Adeniran & Rafiu Olasunkanmi Yusuf & Adeniyi Saheed Aremu & Temitope Mariam Aareola, 2019. "Exergetic analysis and pollutants emission from a rotary kiln system in a major cement manufacturing plant," Energy & Environment, , vol. 30(4), pages 601-616, June.
    3. Cong Hu & Biliang Hu & Xunpeng Shi & Yan Wu, 2020. "The Roles of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Strategy in Industrial Energy and Related Pollutant Emission Intensities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-17, September.
    4. Duan, Cuncun & Chen, Bin & Feng, Kuishuang & Liu, Zhu & Hayat, Tasawar & Alsaedi, Ahmed & Ahmad, Bashir, 2018. "Interregional carbon flows of China," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 227(C), pages 342-352.
    5. Wang, Qiang & Song, Xiaoxin, 2021. "How UK farewell to coal – Insight from multi-regional input-output and logarithmic mean divisia index analysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 229(C).
    6. Haochang Yang & Faming Zhang & Yixin He, 2021. "Exploring the effect of producer services and manufacturing industrial co-agglomeration on the ecological environment pollution control in China," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(11), pages 16119-16144, November.
    7. Yun-Hsun Huang & Jung-Hua Wu & Hao-Syuan Huang, 2021. "Analyzing the Driving Forces behind CO 2 Emissions in Energy-Resource-Poor and Fossil-Fuel-Centered Economies: Case Studies from Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(17), pages 1-14, August.
    8. Wen Wen & Qi Wang, 2017. "Are Developed Regions in China Achieving Their CO 2 Emissions Reduction Targets on Their Own?—Case of Beijing," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-25, November.
    9. Wang, Xue-Chao & Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír & Wang, Yutao & Dong, Xiaobin & Wei, Hejie & Xu, Zihan & Varbanov, Petar Sabev, 2020. "Water-Energy-Carbon Emissions nexus analysis of China: An environmental input-output model-based approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 261(C).
    10. Zhu, Kunfu & Guo, Xuefan & Zhang, Zengkai, 2022. "Reevaluation of the carbon emissions embodied in global value chains based on an inter-country input-output model with multinational enterprises," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 307(C).
    11. Gao, Tong & Fang, Delin & Chen, Bin, 2020. "Multi-regional input-output and linkage analysis for water-PM2.5 nexus," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 268(C).
    12. Lu Meng & Jalel Sager, 2017. "Energy Consumption and Energy-Related CO 2 Emissions from China’s Petrochemical Industry Based on an Environmental Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-12, October.
    13. Zhaopeng Chu & Changxin Liu & Gang Li & Kaixuan Guan, 2018. "Sustainable Development of the Economic Circle around Beijing: A View of Regional Economic Disparity," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-17, October.
    14. Xin Yan & Jianping Ge, 2017. "The Economy-Carbon Nexus in China: A Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis of the Influence of Sectoral and Regional Development," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-28, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Yan, Junna & Li, Yingzhu & Su, Bin & Ng, Tsan Sheng, 2022. "Contributors and drivers of Chinese energy use and intensity from regional and demand perspectives, 2012-2015-2017," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    2. Li, Yajing & Chen, Bin & Fang, Delin & Zhang, Boyu & Bai, Junhong & Liu, Gengyuan & Zhang, Yan, 2021. "Drivers of energy-related PM2.5 emissions in the Jing-Jin-Ji region between 2002 and 2015," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 288(C).
    3. Yan, Bingqian & Xia, Yan & Jiang, Xuemei, 2023. "Carbon productivity and value-added generations: Regional heterogeneity along global value chain," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 111-125.
    4. Yang, Honghua & Ma, Linwei & Li, Zheng, 2023. "Tracing China's steel use from steel flows in the production system to steel footprints in the consumption system," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    5. Jiarui Fan & Yuning Zhou, 2023. "Empirical Analysis of Financing Efficiency and Constraints Effects on the Green Innovation of Green Supply Chain Enterprises: A Case Study of China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-15, March.
    6. Shuangzhi Li & Xiaoling Zhang & Zhongci Deng & Xiaokang Liu & Ruoou Yang & Lihao Yin, 2023. "Identifying the Critical Supply Chains for Black Carbon and CO 2 in the Sichuan Urban Agglomeration of Southwest China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(21), pages 1-19, October.
    7. Tan, Qinliang & Han, Jian & Liu, Yuan, 2023. "Examining the synergistic diffusion process of carbon capture and renewable energy generation technologies under market environment: A multi-agent simulation analysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 282(C).
    8. Tingzhu Li & Ran Liu & Wei Qi, 2019. "Regional Heterogeneity of Migrant Rent Affordability Stress in Urban China: A Comparison between Skilled and Unskilled Migrants at Prefecture Level and Above," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-26, October.
    9. Ruiqi Li & Lingyun Lu & Weiwei Gu & Shaodong Ma & Gang Xu & H. Eugene Stanley, 2020. "Assessing the attraction of cities on venture capital from a scaling law perspective," Papers 2011.06287, arXiv.org.
    10. Li, Meng & Gao, Yuning & Meng, Bo & Yang, Zhusong, 2021. "Managing the mitigation: Analysis of the effectiveness of target-based policies on China's provincial carbon emission and transfer," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    11. Nong, Duy & Nguyen, Duong Binh & Nguyen, Trung H. & Wang, Can & Siriwardana, Mahinda, 2020. "A stronger energy strategy for a new era of economic development in Vietnam: A quantitative assessment," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    12. Zhai, Mengyu & Huang, Guohe & Liu, Lirong & Zheng, Boyue & Guan, Yuru, 2020. "Inter-regional carbon flows embodied in electricity transmission: network simulation for energy-carbon nexus," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 118(C).
    13. Liu, Lirong & Huang, Guohe & Baetz, Brian & Huang, Charley Z. & Zhang, Kaiqiang, 2019. "Integrated GHG emissions and emission relationships analysis through a disaggregated ecologically-extended input-output model; A case study for Saskatchewan, Canada," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 97-109.
    14. Zhao, Yuhuan & Shi, Qiaoling & li, Hao & Qian, Zhiling & Zheng, Lu & Wang, Song & He, Yizhang, 2022. "Simulating the economic and environmental effects of integrated policies in energy-carbon-water nexus of China," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 238(PA).
    15. Mengxue Liu & Xiaobin Dong & Xuechao Wang & Bingyu Zhao & Hejie Wei & Weiguo Fan & Chenyang Zhang, 2022. "The Trade-Offs/Synergies and Their Spatial-Temporal Characteristics between Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being Linked to Land-Use Change in the Capital Region of China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-22, May.
    16. Huang, He & Hong, Jingke & Wang, Xianzhu & Chang-Richards, Alice & Zhang, Jingxiao & Qiao, Bei, 2022. "A spatiotemporal analysis of the driving forces behind the energy interactions of the Chinese economy: Evidence from static and dynamic perspectives," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 239(PB).
    17. Liang Lv & Lidong Fan & Bin Meng & Mohammad Zoynul Abedin & Haoyue Feng, 2023. "A Combined Evaluation Method of Corporate Social Responsibility Based on the Difference and Similarity: A Case Study of Transportation Industry in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-25, March.
    18. Zhou, Xi-Yin & Xu, Zhicheng & Zheng, Jialin & Zhou, Ya & Lei, Kun & Fu, Jiafeng & Khu, Soon-Thiam & Yang, Junfeng, 2023. "Internal spillover effect of carbon emission between transportation sectors and electricity generation sectors," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 208(C), pages 356-366.
    19. Jiang, Jingjing & Ye, Bin & Liu, Junguo, 2019. "Peak of CO2 emissions in various sectors and provinces of China: Recent progress and avenues for further research," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 813-833.
    20. Li Huang & Scott Kelly & Xuan Lu & Kangjuan Lv & Xunpeng Shi & Damien Giurco, 2019. "Carbon Communities and Hotspots for Carbon Emissions Reduction in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-29, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:15:y:2022:i:18:p:6782-:d:917011. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.